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CloudWatch Log Groups: Defined Logs Retention Duration

By default, log retention is infinite on Cloudwatch. You certainly don't need to keep logs for an indefinite period, especially on your dev and staging environments. 😉
Avoid unnecessary data storage by setting a log retention duration! ⏰

Suggested Actions:​

  • Look into your function in your Cloudwatch service, open a Log Group, click the Actions button and Edit retention setting

  • If you use the serverless framework:

    The serverless plugin serverless-plugin-log-retention allows you to configure logs retention of your lambdas.

    This retention period of the Cloudwatch logs can be defined globally, by adding the parameter logRetentionInDays to the provider of the serverless.ts, or lambda by lambda.

    The value of logRetentionInDays must be an element of the following list:

    [1, 3, 5, 7, 14, 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180, 365, 400, 545, 731, 1827, 2192, 2557, 2922, 3288, 3653]